Seniors and retirees who actually live in the senior or retirement cohousing plan the common areas.
Retirement Cohousing Directory
Aging
Here Is Both Delightful and Graceful
Are
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Attracting Younger People
Common House in Retirement Cohousing
Deciding
If Cohousing Is Your Correct Choice
Ecohousing:
A Green Retirement
Features of Common House
Finding DFW Cohousing Communities
Friction
Making Community Decision
Gardens
in Retirement Cohousing
How
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Universal Features
Planning Outdoor Common Areas
Retirement
Cohousing & Your Active Lifestyle
Social Isolation & Loneliness Relating to Dementia &
Alzheimer Disease
What About
Children?
What
Are Usual Common
Areas?
What
Is Shared, Private in Retirement Cohousing?
Other common areas enjoyed by seniors are:
1. Outdoor living areas such as decks, patios, and porches. A meeting porch with rockers is a natural senior cohousing feature.
2. Walking and open areas. This is enhanced by natural beauty and wooded areas.
3. Workshop area.
4. Pond or creek. Any body of water, even a reflection pool, is an asset to senior cohousing.
5. Small play area for visiting grandkids
6. Parking for community vehicles such as wagons or carts for seniors who are transporting items from automobiles, motorized wheelchairs, or a community truck or van. The parking area could also include an area for minor automobile repairs
7. Swimming pool. Swimming is good aerobic exercise for seniors but older seniors do not share a pool well with children.
8. Individual storage areas are useful for seniors, particularly those who are downsizing their home size to cohousing. These might be available on a rental basis or be added as an extra purchase.
9. Screened porch, particularly in areas where bugs and/or mosquitoes are a nuisance. A good place to add those rockers for senior cohousing.
10. A meditation, prayer, or quiet area.
DFW
Ecovillages
Retirement or Intergenerational
Green Housing and Villages
in many areas of
Dallas-Fort Worth.
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